There is no denying that ‘performance coaching’ is an excellent idea to ramp up the performance of an individual or a group of individuals. It’s indeed a nurturing process. However, while enhancing your performance, you may face some barriers. In plain words, there could be some performance problems or some difficulties with your coaching. So, how will you know that? Is there any way to sort out the problems or what’s is wrong with your high-performance coaching? Read on to find out the answers.

Well, there is no doubt that coaching can be a very rewarding experience for both the learner and the coach. However, you will have moments when the experience can be stressful. At that time it is important to find out the reason of difficulties or the areas of problems. Under such a circumstance, ask the following questions to identify performance problems that may create obstacles to your path to success.

Is there any lack of objectivity?

Whenever there is any scope of interaction, there will be chances of misunderstanding as well. The coach may have been providing the right suggestions, but may be the person being coached is not getting the points clearly. Or there may be some kind of miscommunication from the learner’s end. There may be some confusions as well between the coach and the performer on how to do something. Lack of objectivity can result in all these problems. To overcome this problem, it is important to talk about the issues and solve those at first and then move on to the next step.

Do you have a long-term plan?

Very often we encounter problems because we don’t have any clear vision and plan in place. This is true in terms of performance coaching as well. If you fail to set any plan or target while going through the steps of high-performance coaching, then you are sure to fail at the end. That’s why it is important to map out a plan about where you want to reach or what particular skills do you want to achieve. Remember that there are so many factors that will play a part in your coaching and unless you have a concrete plan, you are going to reach nowhere.

Are you measuring your progress?

Do you know that there are indeed some parameters to evaluate your performance? Are you using those to measure your progress? If not, then you have problems with your coaching. Track your performance and make the necessary changes in order to step up your performance in the long run.

Finally, you must have the mentality to commit to actions. When you are facing difficulties while being coached, it means you have problems in your commitments. May be you are not committed enough to improving your performance. In that case, you need to explore the afore-mentioned points and check whether you are making mistakes or not. Once you are done with the task of finding the problems or difficulties, you are good to go forward with performance coaching.